More Bills that takeaway rights?
The 1st amendment for only those the government gives their seal of approval too? As ACLJ states, the Fairness Doctrine has the ability to suppress our 1st amendment rights, so why would the government want to suppress? How could a country based on freedom be able to regulate what you say and when you are allowed to say it?
Now, a top FCC commissioner it touting something called a “Public Value Test” for broadcast stations. Essentially, if the FCC doesn’t like what it hears, it pulls the plug on the station’s license. No, he won’t use the term “Fairness Doctrine” – but clearly this new standard represents a serious threat to free speech and to shows like our daily radio broadcast and weekly television program. ACLJ
Net Neutrality Bill
Wake up there is no such thing as net neutrality
Pros and Cons of Net Neutrality
Telecommunications Act of 1996
“I’m From the Government, and I’m Here to Make the Internet Better” and Other Lies
Cell Phone Limitations: Did you know we are paying for a Cell Phone CZAR?
MSNBC yesterday and he just wants to make sure that you don’t have your cellphone in your car. And the government is developing new technology to scramble your cellphone in your car, so you cannot use your cellphone in your car.
Scramble cell phone while driving? Ray LaHood, Department of Transportation, who is former transportation secretary.
LAHOOD: Everybody has a cellphone. Everybody has a Blackberry. People think they can use them wherever they go, whether it’s in church.
LAHOOD: Whether it’s in their car, whether it’s on in a meeting. And people just have had very bad behavior, and in their car they’ve had very dangerous behavior because people use their Blackberries, they text messages, they receive messages. In Washington D.C. there’s a very good law on the books against cellphone use, and you can drive down the street and everybody’s on their cellphone. You cannot drive safely.
VOICE: All right, so secretary, that’s true. Everything you just said is true. Everybody does it. Everybody’s on their phone. If you look around in my neighborhood, all the moms are trying to pick up kids, they’re on the phones, they are trying to pick up other kids. It happens. Isn’t the only way to stop this is to have a device in the car, when that car is on, the slammer, literally?
VOICE: The phone slammer starts and phones don’t work. Isn’t that the only way to really stop it?
LAHOOD: Look, there’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones, and we’re looking at that. A number of those people came to our distracted driving meeting here in Washington and presented their technology and that’s one way. But you have to have good laws, you have to have good enforcement, but you have to have people take personal responsibility. That’s the bottom line.
Now we have reverend saying people should be limited? Wow, then he should be limited on what he has to say? Works both ways…Mr. Sharpton
SHARPTON: Rush Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants to say. He does not have the right to do it, though, on publicly regulated airwaves. The FCC has the responsibility to set standards to say the public cannot be offended based on their race or their gender.
Now teachers are target for firing for speaking on certain topics?
It doesn’t make sense. A teacher at a Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon was scheduled to teach a course on Islam. Instead of being able to conduct the course, the teacher was fired – given a pink slip for speaking the truth about Islam.
What’s worse. The terrorism-related group CAIR pressured the school to get rid of the teacher. That’s right – intimidation from CAIR – an organization that the U.S. government labeled an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in a major terrorism case with links to Hamas. ACLJ article
Maybe next time duct tape on all Americans will work for our government?
DDF